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Dec 19, 2021

Advent 2021 - WITH - Love

Passage: 1 John 4:7-12

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Advent 2021

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: love, christmas, advent, immanuel, incarnate

“As we get closer and closer to celebrating the birth of Jesus, we take special time called Advent to purposefully prepare our hearts and minds for the birth of Jesus. The first candle was the Hope Candle, inviting us to a hopeful anticipation of the Coming King. The second candle was the Peace Candle, reminding us that Jesus is the Prince of Peace, restoring our relationship with God. The third candle was the Joy Candle, reflecting the Good News of Great Joy that the angels proclaimed. And this fourth candle is called the Love Candle because Jesus is God’s Love made manifest. By sending his Son, God has come to sacrificially love us and empower us to love him and to love one another.”

“As we get closer and closer to celebrating the birth of Jesus, we take special time called Advent to purposefully prepare our hearts and minds for the birth of Jesus. The first candle was the Hope Candle, inviting us to a hopeful anticipation of the Coming King. The second candle was the Peace Candle, reminding us that Jesus is the Prince of Peace, restoring our relationship with God. The third candle was the Joy Candle, reflecting the Good News of Great Joy that the angels proclaimed. And this fourth candle is called the Love Candle because Jesus is God’s Love made manifest. By sending his Son, God has come to sacrificially love us and empower us to love him and to love one another.”

Reader #2

Isaiah 11:1-9

1There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

2And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the Spirit of counsel and might,

the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

3And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see,

or decide disputes by what his ears hear,

4but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,

and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;

and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,

and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

5Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,

and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

6The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,

and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,

and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;

and a little child shall lead them.

7The cow and the bear shall graze;

their young shall lie down together;

and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,

and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.

9They shall not hurt or destroy

in all my holy mountain;

for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord

as the waters cover the sea.

10In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

 

Reader #3

 

Matthew 1

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ[fn] took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

 

23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,

and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us).